Category: Health Economics & Costs
Study: Solo Seniors Rely on Informal Networks of Friends and Family for Assisted Living
America is facing a long-term care (LTC) crisis. By some accounts, about 70% of adults over age 65 will need long term care at some point. The supply of LTC facilities is far too low to meet demand, a fact unlikely to change considering few Americans have LTC insurance.
Thursday Links – 28 November 2024
- The cost of regulation over the last three administrations.
- Matt Ridley: How “experts” led to the rise of RFK.
- All that’s gone wrong at Scientific American.
- Rutgers study finds that DEI programs focused on “anti-racist” and “anti-oppressive” ideology tend to do the exact opposite. (New York Sun)
- Paragon: Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk — could save $2.1 trillion over a decade by making changes to Medicaid and Medicare by:
limiting the federal contribution to state Medicaid programs, axing the Medicaid provider tax safe harbor, imposing Medicaid work requirements, rescinding the Biden administration’s Medicaid rules, limiting Medigap cost-sharing, imposing Medicare site-neutral policies, boosting Medicare Advantage, eliminating, Medicare bad debt, reforming 340B, stopping the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance.